New book out now! Business as Unusual

My new book telling the story of the rise in Team Fortress 2, its virtual economy and the TF2 Spreadsheet is available now on Amazon.com!

This book chronicles the rise of Team Fortress 2 and the simultaneous rise in its virtual economy. The TF2 Spreadsheet was an online price guide and blog for valuing items found within the TF2 marketplace. This book uncovers the inner workings of the price guide and also tells the story of this blog's rise and fall. There is something for everyone, even if you never played the game. Whatever your interest: gaming, economics, trading, reading about interesting people, running a website or even designing a similar game, there is something for everyone.

We've permanently moved!

Direct link here: http://tf2spreadsheet.traderempire.com/

Bookmark us!  We will eventually be shutting this site down.

New TF2 update, promos added

Team Fortress 2

• Added new promo items
  • The Brütal Bouffant
  • The Shred Alert
• Fixed UGC Season 8 medals not using the correct colors
• Updated the material for the Buck Turner All-Stars

Site Upgrade Update

Life has a funny way of intervening and pushing back your plans.  We were getting ready to launch the update and a little emergency popped up.  But things will proceed very soon!  I appreciate your patience.  Price updates may be delayed a day or so as well.  Look for a launch in the next couple days if all goes well.  First contest (in a new format) on our new site will be for a Salvaged Crate #30...so stay tuned.

Our last giveaway (no more emails)

on Blogspot!  (we'll be moving to our new domain)  Let's make it one key, shall we?  For old time's sake.  We will choose the winning # with random.org's random number generator. The winning # will be posted after we have 100 emails. That means the first 100 people who get an email to us each has an equal chance of winning.

Starting now we begin counting emails in our inbox. Send us one email here with a link to your steam profile (many names have duplicates). Do not send more than one email, I will pay extra attention to this. If you break this rule you won't be able to win this or any other future contest. Tell your friend and maybe he/she will win. Contest details and answers to most of your questions are here, including our email if you can't click on the link above.

Update: There are enough emails, I will send out #'s now and then have random.org choose our winner.  Good luck!  I'll post the winner here soon....which is #7!


Congratulations to the "Hiro the Heroe (aka sadhiro)" and good luck to everyone for the next giveaway! Details are here. Some of you have asked questions that the answers to are right there in the link, including our email address. Take a moment to read it if you have questions.

Get ready for our big upgrade (finally!) we've been promising for a long time. There will be a number of contests with big prizes, namely Salvaged Crates. Really. Launch is imminent. Lots of better functionality with many of your direct suggestions implemented. Keep checking back.

Vintage Thursday (no more emails)

Vintage Thursday is here. We will choose the winning #'s with random.org's random number generator. The winning #'s will be posted after we have 100 emails. That means the first 100 people who get an email to us each has an equal chance of winning.

Starting now we begin counting emails in our inbox. Send us one email here with a link to your steam profile (many names have duplicates). Do not send more than one email, I will pay extra attention to this. If you break this rule you won't be able to win this or any other future contest. Tell your friend and maybe he/she will win. Contest details and answers to most of your questions are here, including our email if you can't click on the link above.

Prizes follow, one per winner:

Vintage KGB (donated by MAD2000) - #44 won by "E-102 Gammasheep"

Vintage Killer's Kabuto (painted After Eight) - #3 won by "NaturalSPY"

Update: there are enough emails, sending out #'s now...then random.org will give us the 2 winners.

Sorry to take a while.  Had some nefarious activity in my inbox.  Folks, when I say one email per person I mean it and I will eventually find out.  It's not fair to the other participants.  End of story.

Congratulations to the winners above and good luck to everyone for the next giveaway! Details are here. Some of you have asked questions that the answers to are right there in the link, including our email address. Take a moment to read it if you have questions.

Get ready for our big upgrade (finally!) we've been promising for a long time. There will be a number of contests with big prizes, namely Salvaged Crates. Really. Launch is imminent. Lots of better functionality with many of your direct suggestions implemented. Keep checking back.

New update, new promo

Team Fortress 2

• Added new Linux promo item^[1]
• Added new ETF2L, ESH, and UGC tournament medals
• Added new multicolored-lights style to the Festive Stickybomb Launcher
• Fixed Botkiller Medigun, Botkiller Flamethrower, Stickybomb Launcher, and Half-Zatoichi using the wrong Red team arms skin while on the Blue team
• Fixed a client crash related to the HUD control point maps
• Fixed "Low-Health Kills" strange part also counting kills after the player had died
• Fixed "Buildings Sapped" strange counter sometimes incrementing when buildings were destroyed without a sapper attached
• Fixed a teamkill exploit that used the Crusader's Crossbow
• Fixed not being able to view different styles while previewing items in the Mann Co. Store
• Fixed the paintability of the Mann Co. Cap and the Mann Co. Online Cap
• Increased the particle limit
• Updated The Map Maker's Medallion to be paintable
• Updated the Engineer's Cap so the Red team version displays the correct color when paint is applied
• Updated Mvm_Bigrock to fix a server crash when all players are dead
• Updated several backpack images to fix issues caused by mat_picmip
• Updated the localization files

Notes

1. ↑ Tux

Vintage Thursday is today.

Today we are doing another Vintage Thursday. There are a number of Vintage items waiting for new homes in your backpacks. Every Thursday we are giving them out to our loyal TF2 Spreadsheet visitors. Keep checking back for your chance to win! Don't send random contest emails or post questions about entering this contest, we will let you know how and when to enter.  Today's grand prize will be a Vintage Killer's Kabuto.

Also, check out our friends at the Night Clan Community who are having their own Valentine's day raffles.